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The Onion Picker

Author : Gary B. Youmans
Publisher : Cambell Road Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Onion Picker written by Gary B. Youmans and published by Cambell Road Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 1950's saw the sport of boxing develop into one of the most popular spectator sports in America. The medium of television provided the opportunity for fans to tune in each week, to watch the best fighters in the world battle on Gillette's Friday Night Fights. This decade so rich in culture was the backdrop for creating some of the most legendary champions of all time. Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Kid Galivan, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, and a tough guy from Canastota, New York, Carmen Basilo. On September 23, 1957, Carmen Basilo defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to win the middleweight championship of the world. His remarkable career is a story of survival and perseverance during a fascinating time in boxing history. Basilo's story celebrates the power of the human spirit to triumph over pain and self-doubt. A man of great integrity, Carmen Basilo would move up in weight class for the opportunity to challenge the great Ray Robinson for his title. His belief in himself and his insistence on being treated fairly is a testament to his core value of living an honorable life, one in which he refused to compromise his principles. His story and that of the other great champions of this 'Golden Era of Boxing, ' is a fascinating look back at one of the most magical periods in sports history.

Onionheads

Author : Jesse Miller
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627231
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Onionheads written by Jesse Miller and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This soulful play takes a raw, poetic look at the plight of onion farmers on the edge in the 1935 Oklahoma Dust Bowl. The Tidwell brothers and the Bumpinmeyer sisters explore young love, hard times and loss of family as the sky turns black and the onions die. When the sisters leave for Californee, a shocking truth hits the Tidwell farm and the boys are left with the relentless dust. Devastated, they follow the girls to the "land of milk an' honey" where, months later in a migrant camp in the grip of the Great Depression, they find the sisters buried in poverty and prostitution. The black secret of the Bumpinmeyer family is discovered. Skins are peeled in layers to reveal the sweet and the sour. Tragically, the dirt on these onion pickers never comes clean; the "land of plenty" grows nothing but the cries of dead hearts and broken Okies. Meanwhile, the devil sits in his shack, laughing. Winner of the 1999 American College Theatre Festival.

Holes

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307798364
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Holes written by Louis Sachar and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073491
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) written by Paul Dickson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.

Picker's Pocket Guide to Bottles

Author : Michael Polak
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144024328X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Picker's Pocket Guide to Bottles written by Michael Polak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buried Treasures When a brilliant and rare flask sold at auction for a record $176,670 a few years ago, a secret was unearthed - bottles are true buried treasures. Discover for yourself what veteran bottle hunters have known for years with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking bottles. Learn what seasoned collectors look for and what they value in this easy-to-follow and indispensable pocket guide. You'll Uncover: • The most popular bottles, including flask, whiskey, poison, and ink • The hot spots for picking bottles, from flea markets to thrift stores • Where and how to dig for bottles • How to price and evaluate bottles Whether for pleasure or profit, the Picker's Pocket Guide is a real find.

Sweet Thunder

Author : Wil Haygood
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768641
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Thunder written by Wil Haygood and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most iconic figures in sports and possibly the greatest boxer of all time. His legendary career spanned nearly 26 years, including his titles as the middleweight and welterweight champion of the world and close to 200 professional bouts. This illuminating biography grounds the spectacular story of Robinson's rise to greatness within the context of the fighter's life and times. Born Walker Smith Jr. in 1921, Robinson's early childhood was marked by the seething racial tensions and explosive race riots that infected the Midwest throughout the 1920s and 1930s. After his mother moved their family to Harlem, he came of age in the post-Renaissance years. Recounting his local and national fame, this deeply researched and honest account depicts Robinson as an eccentric and glamorous--yet powerful and controversial--celebrity, athlete, and cultural symbol. From Robinson's gruesome six-bout war with Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta and his lethal meeting with Jimmy Doyle to his Harlem nightclub years and thwarted showbiz dreams, Haygood brings the champion's story to life.

Farm Implement News Buyer's Guide

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Farm Implement News Buyer's Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Occupational Titles: Occupational classification and industry index

Author : United States Employment Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Occupational Titles: Occupational classification and industry index written by United States Employment Service and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiplinger's Personal Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.

Pacific Rural Press

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Rural Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home Vegetable Gardening

Author : F. F. Rockwell
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Home Vegetable Gardening written by F. F. Rockwell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Vegetable Gardening is a guide by Frederick Frye Rockwell. It provides practical assistance in the planting and caring for vegetables, fruits and berries for the avid home grower.

The Australian official journal of patents, trade marks, and designs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Australian official journal of patents, trade marks, and designs written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bureau Publication

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Bureau Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Gather Together

Author : Charles C. Eldredge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520380312
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book We Gather Together written by Charles C. Eldredge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists’ studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in between—when many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland. Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California floriculturists, as well as winter ice cutters and coastal seaweed gatherers. This novel history of agriculture and art traces parallel developments on land and canvas, highlighting breakthroughs in each field. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Doris Lee, and Georgia O’Keeffe are joined by innovators in agriculture, whether mechanical inventors such as Eli Whitney, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick or genetic hybridizers such as Luther Burbank, W. Atlee Burpee, and Theodosia Shepherd. Surveying an astonishing amount of material and a wide range of paintings, prints, and other artworks from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, We Gather Together gorgeously demonstrates how the use of agricultural metaphors permeated American visual culture. The harvest, we see here, came to signify and dominate politics, poetry, and popular culture, ultimately representing a primary facet of American identity and nationhood.

Prairie Lives

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Lives written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of Forests and Fields

Author : Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081357692X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Of Forests and Fields written by Mario Jimenez Sifuentez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them. He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union, which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews, offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the links between the personal and political, as his research leads him to amazing discoveries about his own family history...www.mariosifuentez.com

The Gamal

Author : Ciarán Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620401142
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Gamal written by Ciarán Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Charlie. People think he's crazy. But he's not. People think he's stupid. But he's not. People think he's innocent... He's the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not 'til he's worked out where the beginning is. Is the beginning long ago when Sinead first spoke up for him after Charlie got in trouble at school for the millionth time? Or was it later, when Sinead and James followed the music and found each other? Or was it later still on that terrible night when something unspeakable happened after closing time and someone chose to turn a blind eye? Charlie has promised Dr Quinn he'll write 1,000 words a day, but it's hard to know which words to write. And which secrets to tell. This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous, and how there is nothing a person will not do for love. Exhilarating, bitingly funny and unforgettably poignant, this is a story like no other. This is the story of the Gamal.